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AIBU?

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To starve my teenage sons

30 replies

Christmaswindows123 · 19/12/2025 21:26

All they have had to eat today is three eggs each on two pieces of sourdough with butter, hot chocolate with whole milk, dried mango, Christmas lunch at school, a lucaozade sport, a mince pie, three easy peelers, a banana, an apple, two sausages rolls, five quality street, a yo sushi JFC bucket each, and a portion of chicken noodles, a packet of wotsits and three lindor. They are both still hungry. AIBU to tell them not to call childline.

OP posts:
ChopstickNovice · 20/12/2025 09:23

DH says as a teen he used to come home from school, eat 3 rounds of toast and then have a full dinner and THEN eat two bowls of cereal before bed!

BlackeyedSusan · 20/12/2025 09:40

Yeah, you missed the packet of cereal and bottle of milk (4-6 pints) each.

Commiserations you have two of them to feed. (My aunt had 6 )

BlackeyedSusan · 20/12/2025 09:42

Misscoffee · 19/12/2025 22:05

Teens you just cant fill them.

I can fill up one of my teens easily...her brother on the other hand...

BlackeyedSusan · 20/12/2025 09:46

Dollymylove · 19/12/2025 22:39

Im on the phone to social services right now
( mother of 4 sons) 🤣🤣🤣

Trying to react to your post. Not sure whether to love it, agree with it or send you flowers. They don't tell you about the teenage years when you are having cute little babies. Feeding and clothing great big hulking lads. (Or tiny ones that are preparing to elongate quickly)

sloth75 · 20/12/2025 10:46

ds25 still at home and ds20 at uni. I thought I'd see the end of this but not such luck. Only good thing is they now pay for their food 50% of the time. My food bill is still astronomical and anyone would swear I'm feeding a family of 8 when they are both home. Poor loves have been starved this last week as the food shop isn't arriving until Monday, so they've had to resort to defrosting food from the freezer lol which hasn't gone down well!!

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